Single-player games like HEARKEN
Below are 8 single-player Steam games similar to HEARKEN, ranked by player overlap. Every pick carries Steam's Single-player category, so multiplayer-only titles or always-online games don't sneak in. imho.run pulls the category data from Steam directly — Single-player here matches what the store labels.
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Ranked picks
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Iron Courier
Single-player alternative to HEARKEN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Adventure with HEARKEN.
Operate a tank across a desolate, post-apocalyptic haunted wasteland. Take delivery contracts, search procedural bunkers for cargo, and haul it — while being hunted above and below ground. You can't fight them. You can only outrun them. 1–2 player co-op survival horror.
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Radio Decay
Single-player alternative to HEARKEN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HEARKEN.
A 1-6 player co-op survival horror set in a supernatural nuclear apocalypse. Drop-pod into an abandoned city to extract radioactive artifacts while being hunted by giant bug-like monsters. Rebuild your decaying body with prosthetic limbs, arm yourself, and radio your friends for help.
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Subterror
Single-player alternative to HEARKEN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HEARKEN.
Explore abandoned biospheres at the bottom of the ocean, alone or with up to 4 friends.
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Sketchy's Contract
Single-player alternative to HEARKEN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HEARKEN.
A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.
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Bughouse
Single-player alternative to HEARKEN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HEARKEN.
Play as Christopher, a kid left home alone with a terrifying STALKER on the loose! Try and survive in this 80's, PS1 inspired, Home Invasion Survival Horror game - OR DIE TRYING!
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Bunker Invaders
Single-player alternative to HEARKEN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HEARKEN.
A co-op horror game where you must scavenge for loot and maintain the bunker to keep it standing
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Agonize
Single-player alternative to HEARKEN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HEARKEN.
Once a mad scientist's lab, now an abandoned manor haunted by miscreations. Work as a 1-4 player team in this online co-op, psychological horror game and discover what lurks within. Find a cure before it's too late...
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Cursed Companions
Single-player alternative to HEARKEN — playable solo, no multiplayer required. Shares Action and Indie with HEARKEN.
If we say the wrong words... WE DIE! This game kills you with your own voices! Online co-op where everyone gets a forbidden word, say it and you kill your friends. Explore spooky dungeons, cast spells and defeat monsters with your voices. 8-player Co-op Mode. 16-player Traitor Mode